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Why Cyber Thieves Love Health Care & What You Can Do About it

Cyber crimes are affecting the medical sector. Computer criminals are targeting & stealing patient information, because healthcare centers have access to sensitive financial information & according to phishlabs.com, medical identify is more lucrative than credit card theft & worth a staggering 10-20 times more than credit card information. Some of the consequences of stolen medical information is the patients credit will be severely damaged, their health insurance policies can be cancelled, & most importantly their health is at risk from not receiving treatment. Health care organizations are responsible for protecting patient information, but are at risk of legal action with big costs during these breaches. To read more about how this is about cyber crimes in the heatlh field, please cllick here.